The AKC has been trotting Westminster winners over to Donald for a number of years now, and for a very good reason: the AKC is all about the preening pretensions of the wannbe nouveau-riche.

The AKC knows what it is doing. The folks at the AKC are working hard to woo over the not-too-sophisticated small town gullibles who might swoonat any association with Celebrity Apprentice or Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

There's more here, of course.

Donald Trump and the AKC are the kind of people who can only feel "special" if others are kept out.

And so, on all sides, there is a push to keep out foreign blood -- or at least "the wrong kind" of foreign blood. Donald Trump was fine with using unfree foreign labor to build the Trump Tower, provided those people were white and Christian. And the AKC is fine with foreign dogs provided they come "with papers" showing they are "of the right sort."

No, it's not about health or brains. Never about that! This is about PEDIGREE, not performance!

Would it surprise you to learn that both Donald Trump and the AKC share racist roots? It's true.

So is it really an accident that the Westminster Dog Show managed to find common ground with reactionary racist Donald Trump? I don't think so. Both see the world through the same set of lenses. It's all about puffery and pretension, exclusion and exclusivity, coat color and blue blood, sterilization and gas chambers.